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Himmelfarb, Gertrude was born on August 8, 1922 in New York City. Daughter of Max and Bertha (Lerner) Himmelfarb.
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
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The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition
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For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on historians and the writing of history, Gertrude Himmelfarb adds four insightful and provocative essays dealing with changes in the discipline over the past twenty years. In examining the effects of postmodernism, the illusions of cosmopolitanism, A. J. P. Taylor and revisionism, and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history," Himmelfarb enriches her illuminating exploration of the myriad ways--new and old--in which historians make sense of the past.
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Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians 1st edition by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2001) Paperback
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Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
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Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugness, hypocrisy, and mindlessness, it now suggests quite the reverse: an age of high intellectual, moral, and spiritual tension, in which the typical problems of modernity were posed in their most acute forms. Gertrude Himmelfarb's distinguished piece of intellectual history explores these tensions and problems with sympathy, candor, and critical subtlety. Victorian Minds is a study of intellectuals in crisis and of ideologies in transition, rendered with an elegance of style and thought. "Few works that I know convey the excitement of the intellectual life of 19th-century England as immediately. ... The essays are remarkable no less for the cogency of their wit than for the range and precision of their scholarship"―Lionel Trilling. "Precise and discriminating ... an exemplary study of the 19th century and a superb introduction to the 20th."―Robert A. Nisbet. "Miss Himmelfarb is a writer to whom the organization of ideas into intricate shapes and patterns is imperative, and like many of her subjects-and comparatively few modern intellectuals-she is capable of poised and meaningful generalization."― A. S. Byatt.
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The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT BY Himmelfarb, Gertrude ( Author ) May-29-2012 THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT BY HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE ( AUTHOR ) MAY-29-2012 By Himmelfar
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
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In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguished historians looks into the abyss of the present. Himmelfarb exposes the intellectual and spiritual impoverishment of some of our most fashionable current ideas--and shows how the vogue for historical structuralism has made it possible to trivialize the tragedy of the Holocaust.
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Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (1993) Paperback
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IDEA OF POVERTY Paperback - January 12, 1985
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
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In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most distinguished intellectual historians gives us a brilliant revisionist history. The Roads to Modernity reclaims the Enlightenment–an extraordinary time bursting with new ideas about human nature, politics, society, and religion--from historians who have downgraded its importance and from scholars who have given preeminence to the Enlightenment in France over concurrent movements in England and America.Contrasting the Enlightenments in the three nations, Himmelfarb demonstrates the primacy and wisdom of the British, exemplified in such thinkers as Adam Smith, David Hume, and Edmund Burke, as well as the unique and enduring contributions of the American Founders. It is their Enlightenments, she argues, that created a social ethic–humane, compassionate, and realistic–that still resonates strongly today, in America perhaps even more than in Europe.The Roads to Modernity is a remarkable and illuminating contribution to the history of ideas.
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians Paperback October 27, 1992
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The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
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In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary relevance, Himmelfarb demonstrates that the material and moral dimensions of poverty were inseparable in the minds of late Victorians, be they radical or conservative.
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution Paperback - January 30, 2001
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(The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot ) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb May-2012
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Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and of Ideologies in Transition
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(The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (May, 2009)
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(Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (September, 1996)
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One Nations, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
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One Nation, Two Cultures
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One Nation, Two Cultures Hardcover November 16, 1999
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(The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (September, 2005)
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
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It is one of the curiosities of history that the most remarkable novel about Jews and Judaism, predicting the establishment of the Jewish state, should have been written in 1876 by a non-Jew a Victorian woman and a formidable intellectual, who is generally regarded as one of the greatest of English novelists. And it is still more curious that Daniel Deronda, George Eliot’s last novel, should have been dismissed, by many of her admirers at the time and by some critics since, as something of an anomaly, an inexplicable and unfortunate turn in her life and work. Yet Eliot herself was passionately committed to that novel, having prepared herself for it by an extraordinary feat of scholarly research in five languages (including Hebrew), exploring the ancient, medieval, and modern sources of Jewish history. Three years later, to reenforce that commitment, she wrote an essay, the very last of her writing, reaffirming the heritage of the Jewish nation” and the desirability of a Jewish state this well before the founders of Zionism had conceived of that mission. Why did this Victorian novelist, born a Christian and an early convert to agnosticism, write a book so respectful of Judaism and so prescient about Zionism? And why at a time when there were no pogroms or persecutions to provoke her? What was the general conception of the Jewish question,” and how did Eliot reinterpret that question,” for her time as well as ours? Gertrude Himmelfarb, a leading Victorian scholar, has undertaken to unravel the mysteries of Daniel Deronda. And the mysteries of Eliot herself: a novelist who deliberately wrote a book she knew would bewilder many of her readers, a distinguished woman who opposed the enfranchisement of women, a moralist who flouted the most venerable of marital conventions above all, the author of a novel that is still an inspiration or provocation to readers and critics alike.
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Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians: And Other Essays by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1-Feb-2001) Paperback
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Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution Reprint edition by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (1996) Paperback
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2009) Hardcover
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Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians
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In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most respected scholars of Victorian thought and culture, explores the many facets, public and private, of the Victorian idea of morality. Incisively and provocatively she illuminates the "moral imagination" of the Victorians, "the imagination that treasured the complexity of the heart and mind and that sought, by aesthetic means as well as ethical, to adorn and enhance rather than destroy the 'decent drapery of life.'" The conventional view of Victorianism―a Family Shakespeare purged of indelicacies, piano legs sheathed in pantaloons, and the works of male and female authors chastely residing on separate shelves―gives way to the subtle and sympathetic analysis of an ethos that combined a profound sense of social and moral responsibility with a remarkable tolerance for idiosyncrasy and individuality. Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians invites us to reconsider the complex and colorful panorama of ideas and attitudes, beliefs and behavior, that goes under the name of Victorianism―and it reconsiders well our own relation to that much abused and misunderstood culture. "An important book that deserves a wide readership. It deserves to be read for the critical quality of Miss Himmelfarb's mind and the constant questioning of fashionable attitudes. One does not have to agree with her to enjoy the characteristic sharpness of her writing, or the characteristic breadth of her reading."―New York Times Book Review. "A collection of extraordinarily intelligent essays, held together not by a single thread of argument but by the sustained moral imagination of an acute student of nineteenth-century life and thought....Miss Himmelfarb's essays make clear that there was nothing wrong with either the Victorians' morality or their imaginations."―National Review.
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
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From one of today's most respected historians and cultural critics comes a new book examining the gulf in American society--a division that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political and sexual lines. One side originated in the tradition of republican virtue, the other in the counterculture of the late 1960s. Himmelfarb argues that, while the latter generated the dominant culture of today-particularly in universities, journalism, television, and film--a "dissident culture" continues to promote the values of family, a civil society, sexual morality, privacy, and patriotism. Proposing democratic remedies for our moral and cultural diseases, Himmelfarb concludes that it is a tribute to Americans that we remain "one nation" even as we are divided into "two cultures."
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- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution By Himelfarb
- Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics (Lord Acton is the author of the maxim, "Power tends ...)
- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution (In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the i...)
- IDEA OF POVERTY
- Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1993-10-04)
- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1996-02-01)
- Victorian Minds (Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image ...)
- Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1986-02-12)
- Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995-02-01)
Gertrude Himmelfarb
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Gertrude Himmelfarb, American writer, educator. Recipient Rockefeller Foundation award, 1962-1963, 63-64, 80-81, National Humanities Presidential medal, 2004; Guggenheim fellow, 1955-1956, 57-58; senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1968-1969; American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1972-1973; Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1972-1973; Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, 1976-1977.
Education
Bachelor, Brooklyn College, 1942. Master of Arts, University Chicago, 1944. Doctor of Philosophy, University Chicago, 1950.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Rhode Island College, 1976. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Kenyon College, 1985. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Adelphi University, 1989.
Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Boston University, 1987. Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Yale University, 1990. Little D. (honorary), Smith College, 1977.
Little D. (honorary), Lafayette College, 1978. Little D. (honorary), Jewish Theological Seminary, 1978. Little D. (honorary), Williams College, 1989.
Doctor of Laws (honorary), Union College, 1989.
Career
Professor, of History, Graduate School, City University New York 1965-1988, Professor Emeritus since 1988. Fellow, American Philosophical Society, American Academy, of Arts and Sciences, Royal Historical Society, etc. Many public and professional appointments.
Rockefeller Foundation Aw'ard 1962-1963. Guggenheim Fellow 1955-1956, 1957-1958. Honorary L.H.D. (R.I. College) 1976, (Kenyon College) 1985.
Honorary Litt.D. (Smith College) 1977, Lafayette College.
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
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Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition
(Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugnes...)
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Victorian Minds
(Where "Victorianism" once conjured up an image of smugnes...)
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Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians
(In a provocative study that bristles with contemporary re...)
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Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
(In her enduring study of the impact of Darwinism on the i...)
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The New History and the Old: Critical Essays and Reappraisals, Revised Edition
( For this updated edition of her acclaimed work on histo...)
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Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians
(In these brilliant essays, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of Am...)
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
(From one of today's most respected historians and cultura...)
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The Roads to Modernity: The British, French, and American Enlightenments
(In an elegant, eminently readable work, one of our most d...)
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On Looking Into the Abyss: Untimely Thoughts on Culture and Society
(In these provocative essays, one of our most distinguishe...)
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Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics
(Lord Acton is the author of the maxim, "Power tends to co...)
- The Idea of Poverty: England in the Early Industrial Age
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Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2009) Hardcover
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- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution By Himelfarb
- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution
- Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians 1st edition by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (2001) Paperback
- The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT BY Himmelfarb, Gertrude ( Author ) May-29-2012 THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT THE JEWISH ODYSSEY OF GEORGE ELIOT BY HIMMELFARB, GERTRUDE ( AUTHOR ) MAY-29-2012 By Himmelfar
- Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (1993) Paperback
- IDEA OF POVERTY Paperback - January 12, 1985
- (One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (January, 2001)
- Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians Paperback October 27, 1992
- One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution Paperback - January 30, 2001
- (The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot ) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb May-2012
- Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and of Ideologies in Transition
- (The Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (May, 2009)
- (Poverty and Compassion: The Moral Imagination of the Late Victorians) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (September, 1996)
- One Nations, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution
- IDEA OF POVERTY
- One Nation, Two Cultures
- One Nation, Two Cultures Hardcover November 16, 1999
- (The Roads to Modernity: The British, French and American Enlightenments) Author: Gertrude Himmelfarb published on (September, 2005)
- Lord Acton: A Study in Conscience and Politics by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1993-10-04)
- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1996-02-01)
- Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians: And Other Essays by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1-Feb-2001) Paperback
- Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution Reprint edition by Himmelfarb, Gertrude (1996) Paperback
- Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1986-02-12)
- Victorian Minds: A Study of Intellectuals in Crisis and Ideologies in Transition by Gertrude Himmelfarb (1995-02-01)
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Jewish Odyssey of George Eliot
Membership
Trustee National Humanities Center. Board Woodrow Wilson International Center, British Institute of the United States, Institute Contemporary Studies. Member of council scholars Library of Congress.
Member of council academic advisors American Enterprise Institute. Associate scholar Ethics and Public Policy Center. Fellow British Academy, American Philosophical Society, Royal History Society, American Academy Arts and Sciences, Society American Historians.
Member American History Association, Conference on British Studies.
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Married Irving Kristol, January 18, 1942. Children— William, Elizabeth.
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Recipient Rockefeller Foundation award, 1962-1963, 63-64, 80-81, National Humanities Presidential medal, 2004. Guggenheim fellow, 1955-1956, 57-58. Senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1968-1969. American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1972-1973. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1972-1973. Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, 1976-1977.Recipient Rockefeller Foundation award, 1962-1963, 63-64, 80-81, National Humanities Presidential medal, 2004. Guggenheim fellow, 1955-1956, 57-58. Senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1968-1969.
American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1972-1973. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1972-1973. Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, 1976-1977.
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Recipient Rockefeller Foundation award, 1962-1963, 63-64, 80-81, National Humanities Presidential medal, 2004. Guggenheim fellow, 1955-1956, 57-58. Senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1968-1969. American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1972-1973. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1972-1973. Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, 1976-1977.Recipient Rockefeller Foundation award, 1962-1963, 63-64, 80-81, National Humanities Presidential medal, 2004. Guggenheim fellow, 1955-1956, 57-58. Senior fellow National Endowment of the Humanities, 1968-1969.
American Council Learned Societies fellow, 1972-1973. Phi Beta Kappa visiting scholar, 1972-1973. Woodrow Wilson Center fellow, 1976-1977.